St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-03
KILLED ON THE TRACK.
A Minnesota & Northwestern
Train Catches Man With Fa-
tai Results.

A Minnesota & Northwestern
Train Catches Man With Fa-
tai Results.
About o'clock yesterday morning
the Minnesota d Northwestern limited
train struck and fatally injured a man
named Klindsworth. who lived at River
side Park and was just getting off the
motor on his, way to his work. For some
reason the motor was late and drew up
at the Concord street station on the side
track, thus obliging the passengers to
cross the main track to reach the station
platform. This limited train Is said to
have been running at the rate of thirty
five to forty miles per hour, and so bore
down on the unfortunate man at light
ming speed and gave him no chance to
get out of its way. klindSWOrth was
struck with such force that he was
thrown about sixty feet along the plat
form. He was picked up and carried to
the station platform. The Ducas street
patrol wagon was brought around to
convey him to the hospital, but the
wagon was hardly on its way when the
Door man breathed his last. He was
employed by Paul Martin IL Co.
in building a house on Concord street.
He was about thirty-fOur years of age
and has a family at Riverside. The
body was taken to E. L. Nolk's under
taking rooms on Dakota avenue, where
Deputy Coroner DR.. Lewis will hold an
inquest at II O'Clock this morning.
There seems to be some disagreement
in the accounts of how the man was
cared for after the accident. Joshua
Lally. of 40 Fairfield avenue, said: Il
Mir of tho accident and
the man was allowed to lie on the plat
form. exposed and suffering great pain
for an hour or two before the patrol
wagon arrived. His grOanS were terri
BILE to hear. and the whole manner of
taking care of him was barbarOuS and
disgraceful." The police officers at the
Ducas street station, however, unite in
SAYING that the man was put into the
wagon and dead in half an hour from
the time he was struck by the train.
DISALLOWED THE MILEAGE.
County Commissioners Refuse to
Pay Some of the Sheriff's Bills.
The board of county commissioners
met again yesterday. They took up the
sheriff's bill for bailiffs' attendance at
court during October, amounting to
S546. 1t was all allowed except SIS.
There were twenty-three items to which
the board objected, County Attorney
Egan could not see that it was quite
clear how deputy should be allowed
by the sheriff S15 for bringing five priS-
oners into court in one day, and also S13
for his attendance at the court for the
day. The law allowed only s. for the
days attendance and the s. per pris-
oner was evidently added to swell up
the sheriff'S bill against the county.
When Commissioner Boyd explained
that while the deputy sheriff had been
engaged in attending prisoners at court
a substitute to take his place at the Jail
was necessitated. Judge Egan
thought that the sheriff should
then give the name of the sub
stitute employed, instead of the bill
being so inconsistent as to charge for
one mans services in two places at the
same time. He rather emphatically gave
it out as his opinion that if the county
board allowed such bill as it stood the
public would feel like antagoniZing the
act. He hoped the sheriff would get
his bills straight in the future The
board then disallOwed the items for the
attendance with prisoners at court by
Deputies Clewitt and Lunkenheimer.
and adopted the remainder of the bill
except S263.30 charged up for mileage in
SubpPnaing witnesses from Duluth,
Chicago, st. Louis and other places.
The idea of the board in diSallowing
this mileage is that it is not the right
thing to charge up an account of 10
cents mile when the witnesses were
probably served upon by telegraph.